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Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Energy Harvesting Technologies

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Many environmental and industrial monitoring scenarios require wireless instrumentation with a small form factor and a long service life, a combination that forces designers to move beyond batteries and into energy harvesting techniques. This chapter considers the average requirements of wireless sensor networks, and assesses the suitability of modern thermal, photonic, and vibration-harvesting methods to power such networks across various application spaces.

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  1. Department of chemical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, 140th Street at Convent Avenue

    Dan Steingart

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 304A Holden Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

    Shashank Priya

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 310 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

    Daniel J. Inman

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Steingart, D. (2009). Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Priya, S., Inman, D.J. (eds) Energy Harvesting Technologies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76464-1_9

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